Quicktime 7 and Divx 5.2.1 oddity...

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A small issue but I installed Divx 5.2.1 and now Quicktime 7 shows TWO Help menus in the menu bar? Upon removing Divx the extra help menu vanishes. This seems purely cosmetic but, also, a tad odd.

Think this is a harmless issue or might it be indicative of deeper conflicts, as well?
 
Things like that are expected in such a new system. You'll see them solved in little updates of the third party developers.
 
Thanks, fryke, that's obviously true but it doesn't really address my question or concern directly.

I was, more or less, wanting an opinion on whether this is a harmless issue or not for right now. With the codec installed I've noticed that the double help menu problem also shows up in Automator and Pages, as well.
 
Well, it sounds to me it's cosmetic in nature. At worst... Can you live without it for a couple days? Playing files in VLC should be no problem, anyway...
 
why not use 3ivx? it has the best performance of any MPEG4 codecs, and it is a QT plugin so it works system wide.
 
erh, no i don't think so, Pengu. VLC doesn't offer QT any of its services IIRC. The other way 'round: Yes. VLC can play QT content.
 
WHOOPS. oh that is so my bad. i was actually talking about 3ivx. man. i must be on something..
 
Pengu said:
why not use 3ivx? it has the best performance of any MPEG4 codecs, and it is a QT plugin so it works system wide.
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Like 3ivx, DivX 5.2.1 is a QuickTime codec. Unlike 3ivx, DivX 5.2.1 plays the audio tracks of .avi files out of the box. With DivX 5.2.1, you don't need DivX Doctor II.
 
well, many divx files _are_ contained in .avi format, so... But I agree that VLC (although you were talking about 3ivx, really) is still the best solution, i find. good to have around, anyway, since it kinda "plays 'em all".
 
Thanks for the food for thought guys... I'd gotten used to not relying on VLC for anything but perhaps I'll give that a workout for a few days and see what happens over the next few days.
 
I still prefer 3ivx for the QT component. Sooo much better, especially on lower-end systems that the 2 minutes to convert a dependant MOV file is worth it. It also adds good support over QT's MPEG-4 decoding, allowing playback of content with B-frames and the like.
 
Just for those who don't know: If you install both Divx AND 3ivx, you get Divx audio handling + 3ivx's superior video handling. Note that some people have reported that the lastest version of Divx always tries to handle the video, overriding 3ivx, however I've never had this problem. YMMV.

As for the original question...sorry, beats me. If there haven't been any stability problems, I'd just grin and bear it until the Divx folks release an update. Of course, you might want to drop them an email letting them know of the issue.

It does seem like an awfully strange problem, though. Especially since QuickTime Player 6 doesn't even have one help menu, so it's hard to imagine Divx is trying to do anything with it at all. But again, I wouldn't worry about it unless things get unstable.
 
Hello,

I am a little bit new to video codecs, but I am trying to figure out why Quicktime 7 pro will not open the mpeg-4 files I have downloaded. I have a number of mp4 files downloaded from the Prelinger Archive http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger that I would like to chop up and experiment with in afterFX...but quicktime wont let me open them up even though it says it supports Mpeg-4 codec. I must be missing something quite simple here. The archive also hase downloadable footage in Mpeg-2 aswell but I encounter the same problem. Quicktime says it is file type unrecognized.

thanks,

ezra
 
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